When should/can peer visiting be done?
Peer support can be provided through multiple modes of interaction including:
- Individual (one-to-one) sessions
- Support groups, and online groups.
- Home
- Hospital
- Walk-in clinics
- Community organizations
- Telephone or video-conferencing.
Peer support visits can be done at a variety of points throughout the amputation process. They can occur before or soon after amputation or even months later. Speaking with a peer visitor can play an important role in helping people with the preparation, recovery, and rehabilitation that are part of the amputation journey.
Persons facing or having had an amputation will have different challenges and needs depending on where they are in their journey.
Instructor Notes:
Concepts: Key Concepts to Cover
- The different ways peer support interactions can be facilitated
- e.g individual sessions, online support groups, hospitals, walk in clinics etc
- Peer support can be given at any point during or after the amputation process
Reflective Exercise Facilitation:
- Ask the class: if they had a peer support visitor? and at what point in the amputation process did they play a role?
- Ask the class: Where they met with their peer visitor
- Follow this question up with did they find this meeting place to be beneficial? And if not what would meeting place would have been more effective?
